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Land Rover hydraulic drum winch Mk1 / Mk2 (and Aeroparts GLR104)

Aeroparts Engineering, Dowty · United Kingdom · 1963–1985

Factory-catalogued front drum winch driven by a hydraulic motor fed from a Dowty gear pump on the hydraulic centre PTO (or, from 1963, the Aeroparts bottom PTO so the centre PTO stays free), with a spool control valve and a red-knobbed selector. The Mk1 has an early roller-type bearing support bracket and its own control-valve and hose pattern; the Mk2 changed the valve, hoses and gaskets, and the Aeroparts GLR104 hydraulic winch followed in the late Series III era.

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Description

Factory-catalogued front drum winch driven by a hydraulic motor fed from a Dowty gear pump on the hydraulic centre PTO (or, from 1963, the Aeroparts bottom PTO so the centre PTO stays free), with a spool control valve and a red-knobbed selector. The Mk1 has an early roller-type bearing support bracket and its own control-valve and hose pattern; the Mk2 changed the valve, hoses and gaskets, and the Aeroparts GLR104 hydraulic winch followed in the late Series III era.

Requires hydraulic PTO; lroe recommends checking valve pattern before buying Mk1 hoses

Rarity. Needed the hydraulic centre or bottom PTO and was mostly fitted to utility and military vehicles; a complete Mk II setup is offered at €4,999 (lr-winches, 2026) and lroe makes Mk1 hoses to order, so units survive but are seldom complete.

Record: 5 sources; designation recorded; no price recorded.

Specification

MAKERAeroparts Engineering (Hereford) for the Rover Co. / Land Rover Ltd; Dowty pump, United Kingdom
DESIGNATION / PARTLand Rover hydraulic winch Mk1 and Mk2 (580xxx part series, red selector knob 219521); later Aeroparts GLR104
MADE1963–1985
RARITYRare — Needed the hydraulic centre or bottom PTO and was mostly fitted to utility and military vehicles; a complete Mk II setup is offered at €4,999 (lr-winches, 2026) and lroe makes Mk1 hoses to order, so units survive but are seldom complete.
DRIVEhydraulic motor on winch worm gearbox, Dowty pump on hydraulic centre PTO or bottom PTO, spool valve
PARTSMk1 bearing support bracket 580022, pump-to-spool hose 580104, motor drain 580106, spool-to-motor hoses 580090/580091, wormshaft seal 537852; gasket set 580004/580007/580046; adaptor gasket 580007 (RTC7204)
SELECTORred knob 219521 (PTO knobs are black)
MK1 NOTEearly Mk1 winches have no wormshaft oil seal

Fitment

Requires hydraulic PTO; lroe recommends checking valve pattern before buying Mk1 hoses

Variants

Mk11960s

Roller-type bearing support bracket, original control valve

Mk21970s

Revised valve, hoses and gaskets

Aeroparts GLR104late 1970s-1985

Aeroparts-plated hydraulic winch, GLR part number series

Sources

lroe.co.uk/Land-Rover-mk1-mk2-hydraulic-drum/lroe.co.uk/580104lroe.co.uk/Bottom-PTO-Infolroe.co.uk/winches/lr-winches.com/Parts/Winches/Hydraulic_Winches/product/877/Landrover-MK-II-Hydraulic-Winch---Complete-SetupEvery source above was fetched and read when the record was made.